literary haikus

sent to me from my dad.

Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis:

“What have I become?”

        Uncertain, Gregor Samsa

                    Puts out some feelers.

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno:

Abandon all hope!

        Looks like everyone’s down here.

                    Omigod—the Pope!

Jack London – The Call of the Wild:

Alaskan tundra—

        A dog finds his inner wolf.

                    White snows turn yellow.

I need to think of one for THE TIN DRUM about fizzies.

Clockwork Orange:

Alex likes violence In-out, droogs, ultraviolence It's all in a day's work

(that may have violated the whole "five-seven-five" rule)

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Tom Wolfe, Bonfire Of The Vanities

Rich man, brand new car

World master to nearly all

Can't escape justice

to kill a mockingbird:

atticus in deep

boo radley, come out don't hide!

tom robinson dead

lolita:

twelve year old by pool

humbert humbert has hard on

mom dies--to hotel!

the executioner's song

gary shoots mormons

red square pinned on chest. fire! fire!

bro--music critic.